diff --git a/docs/releases/1.7.2.txt b/docs/releases/1.7.2.txt
index 31a96a4ccd..da6721a1ba 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.7.2.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.7.2.txt
@@ -175,3 +175,9 @@ Bugfixes
 
 * Corrected ``contrib.sites`` default site creation in a multiple database
   setup (:ticket:`24000`).
+
+* Restored support for objects that aren't :class:`str` or :class:`bytes` in
+  :func:`~django.utils.safestring.mark_for_escaping` on Python 3.
+
+* Supported strings escaped by third-party libraries with the ``__html__``
+  convention in the template engine (:ticket:`23831`).